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[El Vikingo]

How come I did only score 5300 in 3DMark2001 ???

And I got

CPU-DUAL MP

Manufacturer: AMD
Family: Palomino
Internal Clock: 1.63GHz
Internal Clock Maximum: 1.63GHz
External Clock: 133MHz
Socket Designation: SOCKET A
Type: Central
Upgrade: unknown
Capabilities: MMX, CMov, RDTSC, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE
Version: Modell 6, Version 2

DIRECT-X

DirectX Version: 8.0
DirectDraw Version : 5.1.2600.881
DirectShow Version: 6.03.01.0400

GRAPHIC-CARD

Description: Primary Display Driver
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Name: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Total Local Video Memory: 128MB
Total Local Texture Memory: 159MB
Total AGP Memory: 0 bytes
Display Driver: nv4_disp.dll
Display Driver Version: 6.13.10.2942
Max Texture Width : 4096
Max Texture Height: 4096
Max User Clipping Planes: 0
Max Active Hardware Lights: 8
Max Texture Blending Stages: 8
Textures In Single Pass: 4
Vertex Shader Version: 1.1
Pixel Shader Version: 1.3
Max Vertex Blend Matrices: 0
Max Texture Coordinates: 8

RAM

Installed & Enabled Size: 1024MB
Form Factor: DIMM
Frequency: 0Hz
Slot: DIMM 1

MOTHERBOARD

Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Model: A7M266-D
Version: REV 1.xx
BIOS Vendor: Award Software, Inc.
BIOS Version: Award Medallion BIOS v6.0
BIOS Release Date: 17/12/01
BIOS Charasteristics: Plug and Play, Flash, AGP

MONITOR

Name: Hansol H711
Manufacturer: Hansol Electronics
Max Width: unknown
Max Height: unknown

OPERATING SYSTEM

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000
Version: 5.0.2195
Desktop Width: 1280
Desktop Height: 1024
Desktop BPP: 32


What could be wrong, I got the latest Detonater driver , updated Windows 2000 and I use the latest DirectX ... I would appreciate some help on this ? thanks :confused:

[NDD]

Welcome to SysOpt ! :)

Few things to try :
1. First install AMD Driver Pack, Version 1.30 (http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/AMDdrvpk_130.exe)
2. Then install Windows® 2000/XP AGP Driver (http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/miniport_533.EXE).

Be sure you running the benchmark at DEFAULT settings. Be sure to check (in drivers' advanced control panel) you haven't activated FSAA (Full Scene Anti-Aliasing) or Anisotropic filtering, since both can severely decrease the performance.

[El Vikingo]

I scored 9300 thanks to you :)

These AMD drivers made it go much faster , but is there a way to take it above the 10'000 mark without overclocking ? :confused: I got the latest DirectX and Detonator driver installed already ...

I don't know if you can help me with this one , I'm at the moment using 3d Studio Max and the viewport update (polygon count simultaneously ) is kinda slow. Do you know a way to make the updates go faster ?

I really appreciated all the help you gave me so far ! :)

[NDD]

Glad to help :)
Don't know specifically for viewport update speed, but you can try using RivaTuner (http://www.nvworld.ru/downloads/rivatuner.zip) (finest nVIDIA tweaker I know) and its "Quadro" patches to modify your drivers to work as for professional "Quadro" card (the instructions are all there). Last time I saw the benches and tried doing it myself (with old GeForce2 GTS) I got indeed very nice performance increase in "professional" OpenGL apps, such as 3DS Max which btw you're asking about ;)
Good luck :)

[El Vikingo]

Great thanks I will do that !..

hehe I did my first OC on my new card today !.. from 300 -> 330 , and from 660 -> 700 !... now I scored 9556 :eek: ! , I'm going to OC it one step further , I think the default fan can handle this setting, now I need to buy a extra gfx-fan extension + PCI-fan bellow graphic-card for better OC.

:) :) :) :)